Category: news

The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that state-run liquor stores in Pennsylvania may soon allow Sunday sales. That’s right — in PA, all wine and hard liquor are only sold through state-run stores, and they’re not allowed to be open on Sundays (under current law).

Every Sunday untold numbers of Philadelphians cross the border to New Jersey and return with contraband booze.

These wine and spirits scofflaws are breaking one of Pennsylvania’s Prohibition-era blue laws. Slowly but surely, though, the “blue wall” is crumbling. This year alone the state has opened 26 liquor “superstores” and lifted the ban on Internet sales of wine.

The biggest news may come this week when lawmakers are likely to allow some State Stores to open on Sundays. […]

As a former PA resident, I can attest that they have some of the more bass-ackwards alcohol laws in the country. For instance, not only is beer restricted to sales at beer-only stores, but beer is also only allowed to be sold by-the-case (not by the 6-pack, or any other size). The reasoning is that people will drink less alcohol that way. Or something.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has finally ditched his comb-over. He looks a lot better for it — I’ve never been a fan of the comb-over, and his was one of the more pathetic-looking.

It’s just too bad it only occured due to happenstance ;)

According to Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel, “The mayor has been extremely busy in the last five days and he combed his hair quickly like this one morning.” His lady approved. And what man needs more than that? […]

(Link from ObscureStore)

Ted Rall writes about the cheesification of 9/11.:

For one minute planes will not be permitted to take off or land. Given that Logan’s crappy security allowed two of the four planes to be hijacked in the first place, one might expect the Massachusetts Port Authority to come up with a more appropriate sign of respect for the victims—say, hiring people smarter than stones to scan baggage correctly. But no. A runway of briefly stalled planes will have to do. [&hellip]

In some ways, the MetaFilter comments are even more poignant:

This is one of those times when dewy montages accompanied by “touching music” just make my stomach turn. All I can imagine is a room full of video editors sitting at their consoles while some choad with a clipboard instructs them on when to swell the strings and freeze on the image of the teddy bear for maximum impact.

I can’t comprehend how that must make people’s families feel— to have their pain re-packaged and sold back to them as a “tribute.” Completely repulsive.

— merlinmann

Yeah, that’s about right.